Re: Mysterious MCH3601 errors at V4R3M0

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From: Ken Sims at SWS Nevada <ken.sws@ke9nr.org>
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Date: 06 August 1999 02:03
>
>>From: "Simon Thompson" <rattus@enterprise.net>
>>Subject: Re: Mysterious MCH3601 errors at V4R3M0
>>
>>>Ken Sims at SWS Nevada wrote :
>>>
>>>A WRITE operation is not "update", a WRITE operation is "add".  If
>>>you are using the file both for UPDATE and WRITE, then you need to
>>>open it that way.  This may necessitate having a dummy WRITE
>>>operation in the main module:
>>>
>>>if    'A'='B'
>>>write [record name]
>>>endif
>>
>>Is just my imagination but since using RPG400 (V4R2) I cannot use
>>N99 99 in the indicator columns to issue a dummy operation.
>
>Two questions:
>
>1. Why would you want to?  Why use indicators?
>
>2. What happens?  Does the operation actually get executed?
>
>Ken
>
>
Ken, I guess I'am just a dinosaur still using RPG2 and 3 techniques now
again.
The complile fails with 'field not defined' ?!
Somebody on the News400 RPG Forum has asked the question what is INXX as it
appears on a program dump as set to '1' . I used to know but I cant' find it
in any of the manuals, maybe I should post this as a seperate message ?

Regards
Simon

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